Eddie Martinez Opens His First Museum Show At The Davis Museum

Artist Eddie Martinez first exhibited in Boston in 2005, and since then, his work, marked by linear abstraction, use of color, and ability to span across mediums a little over a decade later, the artist is coming full circle in a way with his first museum show at The Davis Museum at Wellesley College. The exhibition, titled Ants at a Picknic, which is on view until December 17, 2017, includes a series of new, frenetic large-scale mandala paintings, 17 tabletop painted bronze sculptures and drawings on paper. “The works in Ants at a Picknic make plain that Martinez has hit his stride,” said Dr. Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 director of the Davis Museum and curator of the exhibition. “The cosmic hooks, the summoning of spirits, the virtuoso line, the command of color and composition — it all adds up to its own kind of brilliance.” The artist also has an exhibition on view at The Drawing Center in New York until February 4, 2018. Martinez spoke to Forbes about the exhibition, why he selected that title, and his sculptures made of lobster traps and buoys.